COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONCask: Special - Wetherspoon Spring 2013 Real Ale Festival.
This is complex and full flavoured, with sweet and roast malt flavours, balanced by a pungent hop bitterness and dry hop
flourish in the finish.

8th April 2013Crosse Keys Spoons. Very hazy dark amber beer, small pale tan head. Palate is softish and smooth with super fine carbonation. Medium malt, touch of toffee. Fairly bitter hops with a touch of citrus. Long bitter finish. Not bad but it lack something to bring it all together.

Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Chestnut with cream head. Rich maltiness, full and fruity with a light wine type character then hints of grapefruit and strawberry from a very tasty hop. Really very pleasant and drinkable.

Cask conditioned handpump Moon On The Square Northampton 10/04/13. A dark ruby coloured beer with a whitish head and lacing. A quite complex fruity yet bitter beer. An interesting melange of flavours and a long finish. Hard to pinpoint specifics but this is a great attempt at a British ale by a Russian brewer. Some red fruits for good measure in the nose. A nice strong beer.

The Baron of Hinckley. Raspberry red with a fat cream collar. Sticky fudge, liquorice confectionery, big raspberry and red berry, filter coffee aroma. Fruity, full of berries and coffee, well hopped, Tropical Starburst undercurrents; bitter walnut husk and cranberry hints. Nothing like the sticky boozy blandness I was expecting. Bitter chocolate shavings. Reminds me of the Vikings Return from a few festivals back. Last beer of the fest...and the best?

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